Rate My Professor Pierre Deligne

Pierre Deligne is Professor Emeritus in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study. Born on October 3, 1944, in Etterbeek, Belgium, he earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics in 1966 and a doctorate in 1968 from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He later received a doctorat d’État ès sciences mathématiques from Université Paris-Sud in 1972. Deligne joined the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques as a visiting member in 1968 and became a permanent member in 1970, remaining there until 1984.